In this newly updated second edition of the Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements, George D. Chryssides traces the rise and development of new religious movements throughout the world. An updated introduction summarizes the phenomenon of new religious movements and lays out the changes to the dictionary since the 2001 edition, while the main body of the dictionary consists of close to 600 cross-referenced entries on key figures, ideas, themes, and places related to various new religious movements. An index organizes the information in the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources.
Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation Rodney Stark, William Sims Bainbridge. 19 Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation Secularization is the dominant theme in modern assessments of the future of religion.
Cult Controversies: The Societal Response to New Religious Movements
In partnership with TIME magazine, Prentice Hall has created a special TIME edition on world religions that includes over twenty recent articles on major world religions and topics in religious studies.
Thirty-nine members of the UFO faith group Heaven's Gate took their lives in late March 1997, during the comet Hale-Bopp's closest approach to Earth. Some believed that the group, led by Marshall Applewhite, thought that their bodies ...
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It also recounts the very intimate tale of how these confrontations with threatening and often, violent forces cost him the woman he loved and nearly, life itself.
Hell Ranch: The Nightmare Tale of Voodoo, Drugs and Death in Matamoros
La masacre de Waco Texas
Kamikaze Justice
Cult, Myth, and Kingship in Pharaonic Egypt: Inaugural Lecture Delivered at the College on 12 November 1990